Cabannes, Severin

Mr. Severin Cabannes serves as Deputy Chief Executive Officer, Member of the Executive Committee and the Group Management Committee of Societe Generale SA since May 13, 2008. He was previously Head of Group Resources Division and also Member of the Executive Committee and the Group Management Committee from January 2007. In 1983, he worked as a Financial analyst at Credit National. From 1986 to 1997, he was Assistant to the Finance Department and then Head of production units at Elf Atochem. He joined the Strategy Department at Elf Atochem in 1991 and was appointed Strategy Director of Elf Atochem in 1995. In 1997, he then joined La Poste Group as Strategy Director and in 1998, he became Deputy Chief Executive Officer responsible for Strategy and Finance and Member of the Executive Committee of the La Poste Group. He first joined Societe Generale in May 2001 as Chief Financial Officer and Member of the Group Management Committee. In 2002, he became Deputy Chief Executive Officer, then, in 2003, Chief Executive Officer of Steria. He is a graduate of Ecole Polytechnique in Paris and Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines in Paris. He also serves as a Director of Amundi Group, Credit du Nord and TCW Group Inc, and Member of the Supervisory Board of Groupe Steria Sca.

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